A PULP Guide: Where to publish articles on the law

Information On Selected Academic Journals Relevant To Law, Accredited Department Of Education Of South Africa

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This PULP Guide contains information on a number of accredited journals of potential interest to lawyers and legal academics and which qualify for the subsidy for South African universities from the Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET), upon the publication of articles in these journals by staff and students. For the greater part, only English language journals are covered.The first edition of this Guide was published in 2007. The Guide has been well received by legal academics throughout the country.The accreditation system of academic journals in South Africa may be summarised as follows: three accreditation lists are used by the DHET to determine which journals are subsidised. These lists are the DHET’s own internal accreditation list for South African journals, and two international lists: the International Science Index (ISI) and the International Bibliography of Social Sciences (IBSS).A complete list of all journals accredited under each of these systems can also be obtained at http://www.library.up.ac.za/journals/journalsaccredited.htmISI forms part of Thomson Reuters, a for-profit corporation specialising in information and database solutions. The ISI Web of Knowledge (now called ‘Thomson Reuters Web of Knowledge’) master journal list consists of over 14 000 journals. However, the DHET does not subsidise publications in all journals accredited to the ISI.All journals accredited to the IBSS are recognised and subsidised by the DHET. The IBSS was established in 1951 under the auspices of the International Committee for Social Science Information and Documentation.The IBSS was established to promote and facilitate the free flow internationally of scholarly social science information.For the purpose of this publication, we went through the DoE, ISI and IBSS lists of accredited journals, and selected those titles which to us appear to be of potential interest to legal academics. The list or lists in which each journal is accredited, is indicated in brackets after the website address of the journal. While all the journals listed here are DHET accredited, there may be other DHET accredited journals of interest to legal academics, such as nonlaw journals that are not covered here. While every caution has been taken to obtain up-to-date and accurate information, researchers are nevertheless advised, before submitting an article to a journal, to consult the latest information available on the relevant websites provided. This fourth edition has been updated by Shirley Gilmore of the Oliver R Tambo Law Library. She did the research on the Impact Factors and added an index. Annelize Nienaber provided editorial assistance. Where available, information about the various journals was obtained directly from their websites and/or editorial pages, and consequently the entries in this Guide do not reflect the outcome of an independent investigation on our side.

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• Publié par: PULP (Pretoria University Law Press)
• Date de parution: 01 janvier 2013
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• EAN13: 9781920538132
• Langue: English

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PULP GUIDE: WHERE TO PUBLISH ARTICLES ON THE LAW Information on academic journals relevant to law and accredited by the Department of Higher Education and Training of South Africa (Fourth edition)

Shirley Ann Gilmore (editor)

2013

PULP GUIDE: WHERE TO PUBLISH ARTICLES ON THE LAW Information on academic journals relevant to law and accredited by the Department of Higher Education and Training of South Africa (Fourth edition)

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Introduction

ThisPULP Guidecontains information on a number of accredited journals of potential interest to lawyers and legal academics and which qualify for the subsidy for South African universities from the Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET), upon the publication of articles in these journals by staff and students. For the greater part, only English language journals are covered. The first edition of thisGuidewas published in 2007. TheGuidehas been well received by legal academics throughout the country.

The accreditation system of academic journals in South Africa may be summarised as follows: three accreditation lists are used by the DHET to determine which journals are subsidised. These lists are the DHET’s own internal accreditation list for South African journals, and two international lists: the International Science Index (ISI) and the International Bibliography of Social Sciences (IBSS). For these lists see Department of Higher Education and Training, Documents and then Publications http://www.dhet.gov.za/ Documents/Publications/tabid/93/Default.aspx

A complete list of all journals accredited under each of these systems can also be obtained at http://www.library.up.ac.za/journals/journalsaccre dited.htm

ISI forms part of Thomson Reuters, a for-profit corporation specialising in information and database solutions. The ISI Web of Knowledge (now called ‘Thomson Reuters Web of Knowledge’) master journal list consists of over 14 000 journals. However, the DHET does not subsidise publications in all journals accredited to the ISI. Only the three Web of Knowledge Indexes that are part of the ISI are recognised, viz Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index and Arts & Humanities Citation Index. Further information on ISI can be obtained at http://thomsonreuters.com/ products_services/science/science_products/a-z/isi_web_of_knowledge/

All journals accredited to the IBSS are recognised and subsidised by the DHET. The IBSS was established in 1951 under the auspices of the International Committee for Social Science Information and Documentation. The IBSS was established to promote and facilitate the free flow internationally of scholarly social science information.

For the purpose of this publication, we went through the DoE, ISI and IBSS lists of accredited journals, and selected those titles which to us appear to be of potential interest to legal academics. The list or lists in which each journal is accredited, is indicated in brackets after the website address of the journal. While all the journals listed here are DHET accredited, there may be other DHET accredited journals of interest to legal academics, such as non- law journals that are not covered here.

While every caution has been taken to obtain up-to-date and accurate information, researchers are nevertheless advised, before submitting an article to a journal, to consult the latest information available on the relevant websites provided.

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This fourth edition has been updated by Shirley Gilmore of the Oliver R Tambo Law Library. She did the research on the Impact Factors and added an index. Annelize Nienaber provided editorial assistance. Where available, information about the various journals was obtained directly from their websites and/or editorial pages, and consequently the entries in thisGuide do not reflect the outcome of an independent investigation on our side.

This publication, with live links to the websites of the respective journals, is also available on the website of the Pretoria University Law Press (PULP): http://www.pulp.up.ac.za. For comments or corrections for future editions of this edition, please contact Lizette Hermann via email: [e-mail].

Christof Heyns Co-Director: Institute for International and Comparative Law in Africa Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria February 2013

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Information on impact factors

It is increasingly important for researchers to know whether or not their research reaches the intended audience, and whether their peers engage with their research findings. In this context it could be useful to be able to compare the so-called impact factors of the journals that a researcher considers when deciding where to submit his or her article for publication. If there are many references or citations to an article then it may be said that the impact of that article is high and it will have a correspondingly high ‘impact factor’. Such figures are also available for the journals themselves. ThisPULP Guideto make this information readily available to endeavours researchers.

Information on the impact factors of the journals, where available, is given in the table that follows this explanation. The figures reflect the situation in November 2012. Where there is no information it means that none is available.

Information has been taken from two recognised systems that attempt to provide some measurement of the impact of journals, namely, theISI – Journal Citation Reportsand the system Washington and Lee University, School of Lawjournal rankings system.

Impact factors — definitions of terms These definitions are taken from the following webpages: 1. ISI Web of Knowledge (http://admin-apps.webofknowledge.com/JCR/help/ h_index.htm)for theISI Journal Citation Reportsdata 2. Washington and Lee University School of Law(http://lawlib.wlu.edu/lj/)

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ISI – Journal Citation Reports

Total Cites The total number of times that a journal has been cited by all journals included in the database in theJCR(Journal Citation Reports) year. Impact factor The journalImpact Factor is the average number of times articles from the journal published in the past two years have been cited in theJCRyear. TheImpact Factoris calculated by dividing the number of citations in theJCR year by the total number of articles published in the two previous years. An Impact Factorof 1.0 means that,on average, the articles published one or two year ago have been cited one time. AnImpact Factorof 2.5 means that, on average, the articles published one or two year ago have been cited two and a half times 5-Year journal Impact Factor The 5-year journalImpact Factoris the average number of times articles from the journal published in the past five years have been cited in theJCR year. It is calculated by dividing the number of citations in theJCRyear by the total number of articles published in the five previous years.

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Washington and Lee University School of Law Combined-Score Ranking

The combined-score is a composite of each journal's impact-factor and total cites count. Thus the top-ranked journal(s) in a retrieved set of journals will always have a displayed value of 100 and other journals will have lower numbers in proportion to their ranking calculation score.

3.5

0.5

-

0.6

Acta Criminologica Acta Juridica Administrative Law Review Africa: Journal of the International Africa Institute Africa Development Africa Insight Africa Today African Affairs African Development Review African Human Rights Law Journal

Journal Title

- - - 661 88

-

Scale: 3.756 to 0.078 - - 0.860

-

-

- -

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

Scale: 4682 to 7

ISI - JCR total cites 2011

ISI – JCR Impact factor

-

ISI – JCR 5-year impact factor

- 0.6 18.7

-

Washington and Lee Combined Score

African Journal of Aids - Research African Journal of - Internat Aff. African Journal of - International and Comparative Law African Journal of - Legal Studies African Journal on - Conflict Resolution African Security - Review African Studies 136 African Studies - Quarterly African Studies Review 295 African Yearbook on - International Humanitarian Law Afrique - Contemporaine

Scale: 4.320 to 0.037 - - 0.803

0.604

0.500 -

- - 482

493

Scale: 100 to 0

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- 0.2

0.261 -

-

-

- -

-

- -

-

-

- -

1.544 0.397

-

-

-

- -

- -

0.769

-

- -

1.746 0.325

ISI - JCR total cites 2011

-

Washington and Lee Combined Score

Archives for - Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy Asia Pacific Journal of - Environmental Law

ISI – JCR 5-year impact factor

205

0.612 -

0.942

179

381

1108 192

Ageing and Society American Bankruptcy Law Journal American Business Law Journal

299

1226

415

American Criminal Law Review American Journal of Comparative Law American Journal of Internat. Law American Journal of Law and Medicine American Law and Economics Review

0.459

1.000

1.583

-

1.346

-

- -

-

-

-

-

0.978

0.713

3.4

1.556

Scale: 3.756 to 0.078 1.569 1.084

0.594

1.050

21.3

24.3

- 16.6

18.9

34.8

1

14.4

0

1

0

15.2 -

Journal Title

0.654

1.143

Scale: 4.320 to 0.037 1.165 0.972

1.048

1.444

ISI – JCR Impact factor

21.8 -

47.2

1.258

0.962

0.500 -

27.3

1.000

Archiv des Volkerrechts

Scale: 4682 to 7

0.2

-

Scale: 100 to 0

3

-

-

- -

-

-

-

-

Annual Review of Law 195 and Social Science. Annual Survey of South - African Law Antitrust Law Journal - Archiv des - Offentliches Recht

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Behavioural Sciences 1134 and the Law Berkeley Technology - Law Journal Boston University Law 794 Review Buffalo Law Review 205 Bulletin for - International Taxation

1.5

0.791

1

20.4 67.2 3.1

283

15.4

3.756 1.845

-

0.2

0.233

0.274

0.659

0.841 2.026 -

-

0.833

0.526

-

2

4

85.8 2.9

3.360 2.422

Washington and Lee Combined Score

-

0.2

-

ISI – JCR 5-year impact factor

Scale: 4682 to 7

Scale: 4.320 to 0.037 -

-

-

-

-

-

0.333

Scale: 3.756 to 0.078 -

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

17.5

0.3

Scale: 100 to 0

0.469

-

Journal Title

Business Law International Business Lawyer California Law Review Cambridge Law Journal Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice Canadian Journal of Law and Society

ISI – JCR Impact factor

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Bulletin of - Comparative Labour Relations Bulletin of the School - of Oriental and African Studies

1.011 1.860 -

-

-

Canadian Journal of - Women and the Law Canadian Yearbook of - International Law Catholic University 129 Law Review Child Abuse Research - in South Africa Columbia Journal of 195 Transnational Law Columbia Law Review 3086 Common Market Law 602 Review

Comparative and - International Law Journal of Southern Africa Competition Policy - International Contemporary Justice - Review Cornell International 122 Law Journal

-

ISI - JCR total cites 2011

511 1711 -

-

0.5

0.6

0.1

-

ISI - JCR total cites 2011

European Journal of Crime, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice

-

Crime, Law and Social 244 Change Criminal Justice - Studies Criminal Law Review 140 Criminology and 53 Criminal Justice De Jure - Denver University Law 189 Review Dirasat: Shari’a and - Law Sciences Duke Law Journal 1279 Ecology Law Quarterly 260 Environmental Law - European Business 56 Organizational Law Review European 88 Constitutional Law Review European Foreign - Affairs Review

Washington and Lee Combined Score

0.684

-

-

-

0.417

-

ISI – JCR 5-year impact factor

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0.346

-

2.101 0.574 - -

-

-

-

-

0.5

-

9

4

ISI – JCR Impact factor

Scale: 4682 to 7

-

Scale: 100 to 0

0.687

-

0.2

4.1

European Journal of Industrial Relations European Journal of Internatl Law European Journal of Law and Economics

European Journal of Migration and Law European Law Journal

- 0.525

0.273 0.565

154

501

204

339

59.8 -

0.800

Scale: 3.756 to 0.078 2.525 1.502

0.442

1

19.5

0.9

0.496

1.491

0.854

- 16.4

1.3 0.2

0.313 -

- 0.451

0.8

46.3 15.2 - 2.2

-

-

Journal Title

1.314

0.565

0.681

Scale: 4.320 to 0.037 3.394 1.897

3.048 0.529 - 0.440

1268 733

Cornell Law Review Corporate Governance: An International Review

-

-

-

ISI – JCR 5-year impact factor

ISI – JCR Impact factor

3.948 0.938 -

1.333 1.600

62.8

59.5 0 -

Scale: 100 to 0

0.1 11.8 1 - 9.9

15.1

1.567

Washington and Lee Combined Score

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3.336 1.101 -

-

6

-

2

-

466

-

ISI - JCR total cites 2011

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0.5

0.853 - -

100 36.4 0.7

Family Law - Family Law Quarterly 141 Feminist Legal Studies 79 Feminist Africa - Food and Drug Law 273 Journal Fordham Law Review 959 Fundamina - Genocide Studies and - Prevention Georgetown Law 1328 Journal George Washington - Int. Law Review George Washington 699 Law Review Harvard Civil Rights 279 Harvard 214 Environmental Law Review Harvard Int. Law 301 Journal Harvard Journal of 467 Law and Public Policy Harvard Journal on 187 Legislation Harvard Law Review 4682 Hastings Law Journal 633 Health and Human - Rights

1.464

4.5

0.926

0.2

0.3

38.1

0.944 1.406

2.164

1.377

31.8

28.1

1.077

0.886

1.000

28.2 27.3

176

Health, Economics, Policy and Law Howard Journal of Criminal Justice Human Rights Quarterly Human Rights Review

1.962

1.326

Scale: 4682 to 7

Scale: 4.320 to 0.037 - 0.286 0.314 - 0.758

Journal Title

2.136

0.924 - -

Scale: 3.756 to 0.078 - 0.375 - - 0.655

2.650

1.097

1.163